{ "meta": { "title": "Live captions for churches: every word on their own phone | {{appName}}", "description": "Live sermon captions for the member who loses the words, the guest still learning English and the parent in the foyer. Scan a QR code, choose a language and read along at a size you can read. No app." }, "hero": { "problem": "Live captions for churches", "pill": "Captions for everyone", "title": "Every word, on the screen in their hand.", "lead": "Captions are not only for another language. The member who hears the voice but loses the words, the guest still learning English, the parent walking a baby in the foyer: each scans the QR and reads the whole message as it is preached, at a size they can read. English captions for English speakers, or any of 100+ languages, with the original line underneath when they want it. No app.", "chipLarge": "Large text", "chipOriginal": "Original line underneath", "chipNoApp": "No app", "alt": "Worshippers standing together in a church", "speakerLabel": "The pastor, in English", "speakerQuote": "Turn with me to the book of Ruth.", "chipEnglish": "English · large text · row four", "chipFoyer": "English · in the foyer with the baby", "chipOriginalLine": "Português · original line underneath", "phoneLabel": "The real listener page on a phone, with the sermon as captions and the original line underneath" }, "quiet": { "eyebrow": "The quiet problem", "title": "Most people who miss words never say so.", "lead": "They nod along. They sit closer, or stop coming to the evening service. Some don’t know their hearing has changed; it happened slowly. Nobody hands the welcome team a note that says “I lose about a third of the sermon.”", "quotes": [ "“I can hear him. I just can’t make out the words.”", "“My English is fine for shopping. Sermons go too fast.”", "“I spent the whole message in the hallway with the baby.”" ], "illustrative": "Illustrative lines, not quotes from named people.", "measuredTitle": "Measured vs. reported", "measured": [ { "figure": "19.2%", "text": "of Canadian adults had at least mild hearing loss when it was measured" }, { "figure": "3.7%", "text": "said they had trouble hearing" } ], "measuredNote": "Most people with hearing loss don’t know it, or don’t say it. Captions on their own phone don’t ask them to.", "measuredSource": "Statistics Canada, Canadian Health Measures Survey analysis (Health Reports, 2015)." }, "who": { "eyebrow": "Who reads along", "title": "More of your church than you’d guess.", "lead": "Many people follow better when they can read along. Here is who scans the code on an ordinary Sunday.", "items": [ { "tag": "Older members", "title": "The faithful in the same row for thirty years", "text": "They hear the voice and lose the words. Large text on their own phone, no special seat, no device to sign out." }, { "tag": "Didn’t know", "title": "People whose hearing changed slowly", "text": "Nobody has to admit anything. The code is on the screen for everyone; whoever reads along, reads along." }, { "tag": "Read along", "title": "People who follow better reading", "text": "Seeing the words as they’re spoken helps many people keep the thread, catch a name or a verse reference, and scroll back to a line." }, { "tag": "Second language", "title": "Guests still learning English", "text": "Some read in English to keep learning, some in their own language with the English line underneath. Both are one tap apart." }, { "tag": "Noisy rooms", "title": "The back row, the overflow room, the gym", "text": "Echo, a fan, a row of children. The words on the phone are as clear in the last row as in the first." }, { "tag": "Parents", "title": "The parent in the foyer with the baby", "text": "Walking, rocking, still following. They come back in for the last song knowing exactly where the message went." } ] }, "research": { "eyebrow": "What the research says", "title": "Reading along is not a niche need.", "lead": "Six findings, quoted as published. Each one is about a population, not your church, so we don’t turn them into a number for your congregation.", "stats": [ { "figure": "25%+", "text": "More than 25% of people over 60 live with disabling hearing loss.", "source": "WHO, Deafness and hearing loss fact sheet, 2026" }, { "figure": "55%", "text": "of US adults 75+ have disabling hearing loss; fewer than 1 in 3 adults 70+ who could benefit have ever used a hearing aid.", "source": "NIDCD, Quick Statistics About Hearing, 2024" }, { "figure": "33%", "text": "On average 33% of US congregation participants are 65 or older (17% of the population).", "source": "Faith Communities Today 2020, via Lifeway Research, 2021" }, { "figure": "38%", "text": "of US adults prefer subtitles on, 63% of under-30s. Top reasons: comprehension and accents, ahead of hearing difficulty.", "source": "YouGov, 2023" }, { "figure": "~80%", "text": "One UK study found about 80% of TV subtitle users had no hearing impairment.", "source": "Ofcom (as reported)" }, { "figure": "100+", "text": "studies reviewed: captions improve comprehension of, attention to and memory for video, especially for second-language listeners and people with hearing loss.", "source": "Gernsbacher, Video Captions Benefit Everyone, 2015" } ], "caution": "Most caption research is about recorded TV and video. Live AI captions can contain errors, so we don’t claim the same benefit for every word of a live service." }, "phone": { "eyebrow": "On their phone", "title": "Big enough to read. The original one glance away.", "lead": "Guests open the page from the QR in the browser they already have. Everything they need is on one screen.", "steps": [ { "title": "Scan the code", "text": "On the screen, the bulletin or the welcome desk. Or type the short code at scrb.live." }, { "title": "Pick a language", "text": "English for the words as spoken, or one of 100+ languages." }, { "title": "Tap T", "text": "Make the text bigger, and choose whether the original line shows under the translation." }, { "title": "Read, or listen", "text": "Scroll back to a line they missed. With earbuds, the phone can read the captions aloud." } ], "label": "The real listener page on a phone", "marks": ["T · text size, original line", "What the pastor said, in English", "Language", "Listen"] }, "story": { "eyebrow": "Picture this", "title": "Sunday, 11:52. Walter is quoting the sermon.", "steps": [ { "when": "Before", "text": "Walter is 81 and has sat in row four since the building opened. For a few years he has caught the start of each point and lost the rest. He won’t wear the hearing aid in the drawer at home." }, { "when": "In March", "text": "His friend Ray showed him the QR on the screen. Ray set the text to the largest size and handed the phone back. That was all." }, { "when": "11:52", "text": "Over coffee after the service, Walter is the one saying “did you catch what he said about Ruth?” He did. Every word." } ], "chips": ["Same seat", "His own phone", "Nothing to ask for"], "alt": "Two older men laughing over coffee in a church lobby", "overlay": "English · largest text · since March" }, "sign": { "eyebrow": "Deaf members and guests", "title": "Your signer, beside the captions.", "lead": "Captions are not a replacement for sign language. If your church has a sign-language interpreter, they sign the service from their own camera, and Deaf guests tap “Sign” to see them in a window next to the captions, on a phone or a computer.", "points": [ "American Sign Language, British Sign Language, Libras, Auslan and more", "The interpreter can sign from the front or from home", "On a phone, the window never covers the newest caption" ], "beta": "Sign language channels are in beta and come with selected plans." }, "room": { "eyebrow": "For the whole room", "title": "Captions on the big screen, the lobby TV and the overflow room.", "text": "Open a display screen on any computer connected to a projector or TV. It shows the captions large, with the QR in the corner so anyone who wants them closer can take them to their phone.", "shotAlt": "The Share panel: what listeners open, its QR code, link and event code", "shotCaption": "The real Share panel. Set up a weekly series, then choose Your portal, not This event: print your portal’s QR once and it always shows today’s service.", "marks": ["Choose Your portal: one QR for screens and bulletins", "Your portal link for phones and displays", "A code to type at scrb.live"] }, "honest": { "eyebrow": "An honest note", "title": "Live AI captions can contain errors.", "text": "They are written as the pastor speaks, so a name, a place or a verse reference can come out wrong, and sung lyrics are harder than speech. Add your pastors’ names and the words your church uses to a vocabulary before Sunday; it helps.", "text2": "Captions remove a barrier. They don’t replace a hearing loop, a sign-language interpreter or a welcome team who notices who is struggling. Use them alongside what you already do.", "text3": "InterScribe helps your church offer captions; it does not by itself make you compliant with any accessibility law." }, "faq": { "title": "Questions churches ask us about captions", "items": [ { "id": "english", "question": "Can we show English captions to English speakers?", "answer": "Yes. The language the pastor speaks is always one of the choices, so a member who only needs the words can read them as spoken. Other people on the same QR can pick another language at the same time." }, { "id": "app", "question": "Do people need to download an app?", "answer": "No. The QR code opens the page in the phone’s browser. They choose a language and read or listen. Church Wi-Fi or their own mobile data both work." }, { "id": "bigger", "question": "How do people make the text bigger?", "answer": "They tap T on the listener page, choose a larger text size, and decide whether the original line shows under the translation." }, { "id": "loop", "question": "We already have a hearing loop. Do we need this too?", "answer": "A hearing loop serves people with hearing aids; captions serve anyone with a phone, including people without hearing aids, guests in another language and people in the overflow room. Captions don’t replace a loop; use them alongside it." }, { "id": "projector", "question": "Can the captions go on our projector screen?", "answer": "Yes. Open a display screen on any computer connected to a projector or TV. It shows the captions large, with the QR in the corner." }, { "id": "nophone", "question": "What about our older members without smartphones?", "answer": "A display screen shows the captions for the whole room, and a welcome-team volunteer can help someone open the page on a borrowed or family phone. Captions are one way to include people; they are not the only one." }, { "id": "reread", "question": "Can people read the sermon again during the week?", "answer": "Yes. When the service ends, the whole sermon is there as a transcript in every language that was used, to read or download. An AI summary of the session comes with Launch and up." } ] }, "cta": { "title": "Let everyone read along this Sunday.", "text": "Hear and read what a guest would, then see what it costs your church. Talk to a person if you’d like help setting up the screen." }, "art": { "didntKnow": { "t1": "...the what?" }, "signer": { "t1": "Come to me, all you", "t2": "who are weary.", "t3": "And I will give you", "t4": "rest.", "t5": "American Sign Language", "t6": "Sign" }, "screen": { "t1": "Be still, and know", "t2": "that I am God." } } }